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- FBI agents fired for working on Trump’s classified documents case file new law...
Before Kash Patel was confirmed as director of the FBI, he assured senators that he had no interest in waging a campaign against agents who worked on cases he disapproved of in the past. “I have no interest, no desire, and will not, if confirmed, go backwards,” he testified. “There will be no politicization at the FBI. There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI, should I be confirmed as the FBI director.” After Patel took the reins at the bureau, it quickly became clear that the former podcast personality didn’t exactly mean what he said. On the contrary, one of the defining features of Patel’s tenure has been the needlessly aggressive purge of FBI personnel, especially those who worked on investigations opposed by the Trump White House. One especially striking example emerged in February, when the FBI fired a group of agents and support staff who worked on the investigation into Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents. At the time, the FBI Agents Association said in a statement that the terminations were “unlawful” and violated “the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country.” Evidently, those who were purged came to the same conclusion. On Thursday, nine former FBI employees filed a lawsuit against Patel and Attorney General Todd Blanche, challenging the legality of their dismissals. A statement from their attorneys read in part: In return for their service, they were fired because they did their jobs, as they always did to follow the facts and law without bias or favor. To this administration, this is an offense. To the rest of us, it is heroic. This lawsuit will prove their unlawful dismissal and hold the administration accountable for this blatant attack on the rule of law. The litigation itself also asserted that the firing of the agents and support staff “did not follow any internal investigation or disciplinary process within the FBI.” While administration officials have not yet commented on the litigation, it’s worth noting for context how familiar the circumstances are. A dozen FBI agents who were fired in 2025 for taking a knee during racial justice protests five years earlier have also sued Patel and the bureau, as has a veteran FBI employee, who was training to become a special agent, who was fired last year for displaying an LGBTQ+ flag at his workspace, despite the fact… [TheTopNews] Read More.14 mins ago - White House’s Katie Zacharia confirms she never passed bar exam
The White House described Katie Zacharia as "uniquely qualified" to be the new press secretary. [TheTopNews] Read More.19 mins ago - White House prepares plans to use “mother of all bombs” on IranThe White House and Pentagon have prepared plans to use a Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb to hit military sites in Iran if ordered by President Trump, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. [TheTopNews] Read More.21 mins ago
- 6 Members of South Africa’s Biggest Party Are Killed in Shootings
The two shootings took place only a few weeks before pivotal, nationwide local elections, and as the party, the A.N.C., is embroiled in a dispute over the eligibility of more than 100 candidates. [TheTopNews] Read More.28 mins ago - Judge dismisses former CIA director’s bid to preserve probe recordsA federal judge on Thursday dismissed John Brennan’s effort to obtain a court order to require the Trump administration preserve all records related to its inquiry of the former CIA director. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb dismissed Brennan’s lawsuit, finding his claims, although “troubling,” to be speculative at this point in time. Brennan had sought all records related to these investigations in order to prepare a defense should he face prosecution in the future. “Brennan’s allegations—that he is being targeted by the Trump Administration not because of his conduct, but because he has opposed the current president—are deeply concerning. If he was eventually able to prove those allegations true, that would certainly suggest that his potential prosecution is vindictive,” Cobb wrote. “But even taking all of Brennan’s allegations to be truthful at this stage, the injury he alleges is simply too attenuated from the actions he seeks to enjoin to warrant a finding of standing here.” “The facts Brennan pleads—which, taken as true, are certainly troubling—imply not an inexorable injury, but a speculative one,” she added. Brennan pointed to several Trump administration officials’ questionable history of preserving records, specifically pointing to top officials’ use of automatically deleting Signal messages. But Cobb was not persuaded. “For most Defendants in this case—[Attorney General Todd] Blanche, [U.S. Attorney Jason] Reding Quiñones, [Joe] diGenova, [FBI Director Kash] Patel, the Executive Office of the President, the CIA, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence—there are no allegations of non-preservation at all,” she wrote. Neither the Justice Department nor Brennan did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s requests for comment. The ruling comes one month after Cobb heard arguments over Brennan’s bid for a court order. During that hearing she indicated she was skeptical of the effort. “It seems like it relies on a number of contingencies, including whether or not there’s going to be an indictment,” Cobb said at the time. Lawyers for Brennan had argued the threat of prosecution was real after Brennan had been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury as part of a government investigation into him. “The threat of prosecution remains quite real, quite tangible,” said Kenneth Wainstein, a lawyer representing Brennan. The government pushed back on Brennan’s allegations during the hearing, arguing Brennan’s suit is not only unprecedented but also speculative — that the former CIA director is asking the judge to weigh in on something… [TheTopNews] Read More.33 mins ago
- Letters with ‘suspicious substances’ sent to US election offices
A number of states have confirmed they were targeted by the mailings, including Oklahoma, Ohio and Louisiana. [TheTopNews] Read More.33 mins ago
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